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Lana Barham
Lana Barham spread incitement and expressed hatred of Zionists during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, launched after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more on October 7, 2023.
As of January 2025, Barham was listed as the "Primary Contact" of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist group at American University (AU SJP).
In December 2023, AU's student newspaper, The Eagle, reported that Barham was an AU SJP member.
Barham is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of January 2025, Barham's LinkedIn profile said she was a student at AU, slated to graduate in 2026.
As of January 2025, Barham's Facebook profile said she was located in Washington D.C.
As of January 2025, Barham's Instagram bio said: "بالروح بالدم نفديكي يا فلسطين [With spirit, with blood, we will redeem you, Palestine].”
The line in Barham's Instagram bio was a variation of a pro-terror chant heard at anti-Israel rallies. The line was in her bio during Israel's war against Hamas, launched after October 7, 2023.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Also as of January 2025, Barham's profile photo included an oil painting of an anti-Israel protester wearing a keffiyeh while raising his middle finger with fire coming out of it.
On November 10, 2024, Barham posted a comment on an AU SJP Instagram post that was in opposition to a pro-Israel event on campus.
Barham wrote: "au continues to out do itself every time. hosting people who literally have blood on their hands to come talk about how to best colonize and ethnically cleanse a people and ensure the colonial regimes longevity. disgusting."
Barham's comment referred to an Instagram post where AU SJP was listed as a collaborator. The post was in opposition to a "Zionist conference" to be hosted at AU and the post was also captioned: "🚨🚨IOF AND WAR CRIMINALS OFF OUR CAMPUS🚨🚨."
“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory name for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army.
The Instagram post referred to conference held at AU from November 10-11, 2024, titled: "Israel at 100: Scenarios for the Future of Israel in 2048." The conference included speakers Eugene Kandel, an Israeli economist and David Schenker , a Jewish-American diplomat.
On November 14, 2024, Barham commented on Instagram about the above conference: "this was hosted during the week of kindness too. is it kind to host war criminals on campus? asking for some friends!" This comment was in reference to another Instagram post by AU SJP about the same conference.
AU SJP's post described their "Study In For Gaza" event, whereby students affiliated with SJP attended the keynote session of the "Israel at 100" conference with signs taped to their laptops reading "THERE ARE NO UNIVERSITIES LEFT IN GAZA," "IOF OFF OUR CAMPUS," "100+ YEARS OF OCCUPATION, ETHNIC CLEANSING, APARTHEID, & GENOCIDE" and "END THE SIEGE ON GAZA NOW." AU SJP's stated aim was to ensure that the event would not be held "silently or comfortably."
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
SJP is the leading student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses. The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-terror activism on campus.
